Letteratura

An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson

Arthur Murphy · 1792 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

London, T. Longman et al, 1792. First edition. Leather. This is an uncommon first edition of this essay on the life of Samuel Johnson. First Edition. Samuel Johnson was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, litera...

Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1809 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Thomas Campbell's poetical work, 'Gertrude of Wyoming&apos. With rare errata slip to half-title. Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry...

Childe Harold&Apos;S Pilgrimage a Romanaut and Other Poems and Canto the Fourth

Lord Byron · 1812 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

London, John Murray, 1812-18. Leather. Two volumes of Lord Byron's lengthy narrative poem, in a attractive uniform leather binding. In a lovely morocco J Edmond of Aberdeen binding. With a folding Greek facsimile plate to the rear of volume I. Volume I is the third editio...

The Poetical Works of Mrs Hemans Reprinted from the Early Editions with Memoir Explanatory Notes Etc.

Mrs Hemans · 1885 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1880. Leather. The complete poetical works by the popular English poet, Mrs Hemans. Illustrated, with six full page plates. With a biographical introduction by the editor. Published as a part of the 'Lansdowne Poets' collection from F...

The Works of Sir William Temple to Which Is Prefixed the Life and Character of Sir William Temple

Sir William Temple · 1740 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.36 | $627.54 | ¥100,179)

London, J Round, R Gosling, T Woodward et al, 1740. Leather. A leatherbound set of the collected works of Sir William Temple. The works of Sir William Temple. Complete in two volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to volume I. With the bookplate of Sir Richard Glyn 1st Baronet ...

Seventeenth-Century Studies

Edmund W. Gosse · 1883 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1883. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this contribution to the history of English poetry by Edmund W. Gosse. With a Preface by the author. Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (21 September 1849 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and cr...

The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical

W. Garrett Horder · 1896 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Henry Frowde, 1896. First edition. Leather. A first edition of the interesting religious poetry collection, The Treasury of American Sacred Song. Bound in quarter paper vellum with gilt lettering. This collection includes work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Townsend Tr...

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire

Lord Byron · 1810 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,979)

London, James Crawthorn, 1810. Leather. A third edition of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire by Lord Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is a satirical poem written by Lord Byron. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809; the opening parodies the fi...

The Devil&Apos;S Visit; a Poem from the Original Manuscript with Notes by a Barrister

Robert Cruikshank · 1830 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,835)

London, William Kidd, 1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this humorous poem The Devil's Visit. With five illustrated plates and an additional frontispiece by Robert Cruikshank. Advertisement on verso to title page signed C E D. Direct from the library of t...

A London Romance

Charles H Ross · 1869 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.49 | ¥89,634)

London, Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First edition. Leather. The complete three volumes of Charles H Ross' novel A London Romance. The first edition of this novel. From the library of Julian Goldsmid, a British lawyer, businessman and Liberal politician. He sat in the House of...

Beeton&Apos;S Men of the Age and Annals of the Time

Samuel Orchart Beeton · 1831 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.38 | ¥33,744)

None, Ward, Lock and Tyler, c1874. Leather. A scarce copy of Beeton's work on the most famous men and women of his time. With a publisher's catalogue to the rear. With the bookseller's label of Veuve J. Boyveau, Librairie Etrangere, to the front pastedown. Samue...

The Mosaic Worker&Apos;S Daughter

J M Capes · 1868 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.42 | $561.49 | ¥89,634)

London, Richard Bentley, 1868. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this novel by J M Capes. Really, very scarce. Complete in three volumes, bound as two. J M Capes (John Moore Capes) wrote several religious works including Four Years' Experience of the Catholic R...

Poems on Several Occasions

Matthew Prior · 1709 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1709. Leather. The first authorized edition of Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions. With a beautiful engraved frontispiece. With a long dedication to Prior's patron, the Right Honourable Lionel, Earl of Dorset and Middlesex. This is the f...

Enoch Arden, Etc

Alfred Tennyson · 1864 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

London, Edward Moxon and Co, 1864. Leather. A leatherbound copy of Enoch Arden, etc Alfred Tennyson's 1864 collection of poems. Tennyson (1809 - 1892) became Poet Laureate under Queen Victoria and found fame as one of the most popular English poets, even to this day. Asid...

Literary Essays

J Morley · 1906 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, Arthur L Humphreys, 1906. Leather. The edition of Morley's Literary Essays. Stated to the recto of half title page as 'reprinted by permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co&apos. Macmillan printed the original 1891 edition of Studies in Literature and several othe...

Tales

Rev George Crabbe · 1812 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, J Hatchard, 1812. First edition. Leather. A first edition collection of verse tales by the Rev. George Crabbe. George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative...

Trilby

George du Maurier · 1894 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.09 | ¥200,358)

London, Harper's Monthly Magazine, 1894. First edition. Leather. A fantastic find for fans of du Maurier, the original Harper's Monthly serialisation of Trilby bound from the parts into a finely bound volume. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards wit...

Dickon O&Apos; Greenwood; or, How the Light Came to Lady Clare. A Village Picture in Martyr Days

Kate T. Sizer · 1891 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,652)

London, Charles H. Kelly, 1891. First edition. Cloth. A scarce novel by Kate T. Sizer, with an illustration to frontispiece and decorative head and tail pieces and capitals. First edition. Set during the martyr-days of Queen Mary, depicting a Protestant village life. With an i...

Samantha in Europe

Marietta Holley · 1896 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.94 | $46.23 | ¥7,379)

New York , Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1896. Cloth. Samantha in Europe by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) and illustrated by C. De Grimm. First American edition. Marietta Holley (1836 - 1926), was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and po...

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Lord Byron · 1811 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London , James Cawthorn, 1811. Cloth. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers the first major satire by Lord Byron was prompted by the savage, anonymous criticism this received (now known to be the work of Henry Peter Brougham) in the Edinburgh Review prompted his first major satir...